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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror through the nation by tersely announcing, with regrets, that "His Majesty's Ship Royal Oak has been sunk, it is believed by U-boat action." Royal Oak* was a battleship of 29,150 tons, built in 1914, and her loss reduced from 15 to 14 the number of Britain's capital ships. The time and place of the sinking were not officially divulged, but it appeared to have happened between midnight and dawn...
Hospital doctors examined them, reported them to the Board of Health as dysentery cases. Next day the number had tripled, and State Welfare Director Archibald Leonard Bowen, knowing that many modern doctors do not recognize a case of typhoid when they see one, at once chlorinated the hospital's water supply, sent a truckload of typhoid vaccine to the hospital. But it was too late...
...they got their routine tryparsamide injections. Some were given doses of cod-liver oil, as well as two yeast tablets a day; others were also given intravenous injections of the synthetic vitamin. Only one of the 50 suffered any disturbance of vision. When the vitamin was given to a number of tryparsamide "shock victims" whose eyes were already failing, they reported a quick and remarkable improvement...
...fifth group got no medicine at all. Half an hour after the drug was given, each mouse was inoculated with enough Hemophili to kill him 100 times over. Results: 1) all the unprotected mice died; 2) "no mouse died which received eight milligrams of the drug"; 3) the number of hours the other mice lived "was directly proportional to the amount of drug administered...
...understood that, if unexpected loads on any of the House dining halls should occur too frequently, it may be necessary to require advance notice or else to limit the number of guests at any one time...